[Federal Register Volume 61, Number 151 (Monday, August 5, 1996)]
[Rules and Regulations]
[Pages 40523-40524]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Printing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 96-19708]
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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
40 CFR Part 300
[FRL-5546-2]
National Oil and Hazardous Substances Pollution Contingency Plan
National Priorities List Update
AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency.
ACTION: Notice of deletion of the Bio-Ecology Systems Superfund Site
from the National Priorities List.
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SUMMARY: The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announces the
deletion of the Bio-Ecology Site in Grand Prairie, Texas, from the
National Priorities List (NPL). The NPL is Appendix B of 40 CFR part
300 which is the National Oil and Hazardous Substances Pollution
Contingency Plan (NCP), which EPA promulgated pursuant to Section 105
of the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and
Liability Act of 1980, as amended (CERCLA). EPA and the State of Texas
have determined that all appropriate Fund-financed responses under
CERCLA have been implemented and that no further cleanup by responsible
parties is appropriate. Moreover, EPA and the
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State of Texas have determined that remedial actions conducted at the
Site to date have been protective of public health, welfare, and the
environment.
EFFECTIVE DATE: August 5, 1996.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ernest R. Franke, Remedial Project
Manager, US EPA, Region 6, 1445 Ross Avenue, Dallas, Texas 75202-2733,
(214) 665-8521.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The site to be deleted from the NPL is the
Bio-Ecology Systems Site, Grand Prairie, Texas. A Notice of Intent to
Delete for this site was published in the Federal Register on May 6,
1996, (60 FR 422). The closing date for public comment was June 5,
1996. EPA received no comments during the comment period.
EPA identifies sites which appear to present a significant risk to
public health, welfare, or the environment and maintains the NPL as a
list of the most serious of those sites. Sites on the NPL may be the
subject of remedial response actions financed using the Hazardous
Substance Response Trust Fund (Fund). Any site deleted from the NPL
remains eligible for Fund-financed remedial actions in the unlikely
event that conditions at the site warrant such action. Section
300.425(e)(3) of the NCP, provides that in the event of a significant
release from a site deleted from the NPL, the site shall be restored to
the NPL without application of the Hazard Ranking System. Deletion of a
site from the NPL does not affect responsible party liability or impede
agency efforts to recover costs associated with response actions.
List of Subjects in 40 CFR Part 300
Environmental protection, Hazardous waste.
Dated: July 23, 1996.
Jane N. Saginaw,
Regional Administrator, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Region 6.
For the reasons set out in the preamble, 40 CFR part 300, is
amended as follows:
PART 300--[AMENDED]
1. The authority citation for part 300 continues to read as
follows:
Authority: 33 U.S.C. 1321(c)(2); 42 U.S.C. 9601-9657; E.O.
12777, 56 FR 54757, 3 CFR, 1991 Comp., 351; E.O. 12580; 52 FR 2923,
3 CFR, 1987 Comp., p. 193.
Appendix B--[Amended]
2. Table 1 of Appendix B to part 300 is amended by removing BIO-
ECOLOGY SYSTEMS Superfund Site, Grand Prairie, Texas.
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